Screenlets applications moving around after a restart in Ubuntu 11.10

[john Alatalo]

I have noticed that the screenlets applications moving to a differents place on the screen after a restart in Ubuntu 11.10.
Even if the settings are set at "lock on screen"
http://screenlets.org/index.php/Home

The clock can move behind the calendar for example. That never happend in the previous 11.04 version.

[john Alatalo (john-alatalo-deactivatedaccount)]

How it looks after a restart.

[Märt Põder (boamaod)]

It's probably connected to the comments in the end of this report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/screenlets/+bug/345359

So the screenlets move regularly into the same y-axis position, but x-axis is fine? Any more regularities?

Are you using the latest Screenlets from PPA? What is the exact version?

[john Alatalo (john-alatalo-deactivatedaccount)]

I have downloaded the Screenlets from the "Ubuntu software center" and all avaible updates ared done to. So I suppose it's the latest version of it.

Sometimes they are at the correct place after a restart. And next time it can be on the wrong place again.

I also installed Ubuntu 11.10 in a friends laptop and the behaviour is same there as in my own PC.

[john Alatalo (john-alatalo-deactivatedaccount)]

After the latest updates it seems like this problem are solved. My Screenlets are at same place now even after a restart.
So I suppose this can be closed if nobody else still got this problem.

[Märt Põder (boamaod)]

Please let us know if the problems continue to happen. I see that three people say they are affected by this problem. Maybe the problem occurs only after some of the first launches and then disappears?

[Märt Põder (boamaod)]

It seems that the problem is caused by Unity changing screen parameters in the middle of a screenlets loading/drawing themselves.

There are things in the logs like:

   Screen geometry changed
   Starting unity-window-decorator
   DEBUG 2011-11-04 20:01:21 glib <unknown>:0 Setting to primary screen rect: x=0 y=0 w=1024 h=768

And it seems when a screenlet is loaded during these changes, it will place itself wrong. I think that the solution would be to delay starting of screenlets, i. e. in ~/.config/autostart/*Screenlet.desktop add on the "Exec= sleep 5 && python -u ..." to delay starting the screenlet 5 seconds later (when Unity is probably already loaded).

If you have this problem and this solution works, please tell us so, maybe this bug can be fixed for good.

[Märt Põder (boamaod)]

Oh, probably you cannot just put "sleep 5 &&" there in the middle, but have to do it like

   Exec= bash -c "sleep 5 && python -u /usr/share/screenlets/screenlets-pack-basic/Lipik/LipikScreenlet.py"

[john Alatalo (john-alatalo-deactivatedaccount)]

It have happend again for me. So I will stop using the Screenlets to this problem are solved.

[john Alatalo (john-alatalo-deactivatedaccount)]

I have noticed this seems to happend after some update packages are released and when it ask to "restart" the computer.

[Märt Põder (boamaod)]

I think I have found a workaround for the problem. I hope it will be available in Screenlets Dev PPA in next 24h.

[Märt Põder (boamaod)]

See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/screenlets/+bug/904040

[Alexander Kallenbach (kallenbachalex)]

Is this bug a duplicate of bug #872755?

[Märt Põder (boamaod)]

Now I marked this bug as duplicate of #872755, but it should be the other way around.

[itsjustarumour (itsjustarumour-gmail-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Still an issue with latest version 0.1.7~bzr836 on both Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10 (both 64-bit).